A MAN from Breightmet who had a lucky escape after slipping into a Bolton lodge as a child has joined the Evening News campaign to fill them in.

Twenty years ago Wesley McArdle was like any other boy of his age with a natural curiosity and sense of adventure and an attraction for water that all youngsters share.

But a tumble into the disused, overgrown and isolated Red Bridge Lodge close to his home changed Wesley's attitude to "mucking about near water" for good.

See our Lodge Watch file on the left link for this full report.